Table of contents for The political economy of East Asia : striving for wealth and power / by Ming Wan.

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Contents
Part I: Introduction
1. Introduction
What Is East Asia?
The Political Economy Approach
Defining Political Economy
Institutions
Rational choice approach
Historical institutionalism
Power and political institutions
Comparative Political Economy and International Political Economy
The State and the Market
Economic Growth Versus Political Regime
Power of Ideas
Design of the Book
2. The East Asian National Systems of Political Economy
The Political Economy Systems of East Asia: An Overview
The Japanese System of Political Economy
The Embedded Mercantilism
Structural Reform
The Political Economy Systems of the Asian Tigers
South Korea
Taiwan
Singapore
The Political Economy Systems of Southeast Asia
Malaysia
Thailand
Indonesia
The Philippines
Burma/Myanmar
The Transitional Political Economies
China
Vietnam
North Korea
Cambodia
Conclusion
Part II: Rise and Fall of East Asia
3. The Chinese World Order
World Orders
International Order
The Chinese World Order
Political Economy of East Asian Trade
Comparative Political Economy
China
Korea
Japan
Southeast Asia
Beyond European Models of World History
Eurocentric Models of World History
New Scholarship on World History
Why Did the West Rise?
Conclusion
4. Modern Imperialism
Western Imperialism
Imperialism
History of Western Domination in East Asia
East Asian Responses to Western Domination
Legacies of Western Colonialism
East Asian international political economy
Nationalism and communism
Japanese Imperialism
Japanese Response to Western Imperialism
History of Japanese Imperialism
Legacies of Japanese Imperialism
East Asian international political economy
East Asian nationalism and communism
Japan's imperialist past on Japan
Conclusion
5. The East Asian Miracle
Postwar Transformation of East Asian Political Economy
Rapid Economic Growth with Equity
Was There a Miracle?
Structural Change
March to Capitalism
Explaining the East Asian Miracle
Neoclassical Economics
The Developmental State Approach
The East Asian Challenge
What Exactly Explains the East Asian Miracle?
A Regional Perspective of East Asian Political Economy
Flying Geese Formation
Regional Integration and Learning
The United States and East Asian Political Economy
The U.S. Hegemony
Managing Rivals
The United States and East Asian Regionalism
The Political Economy of Growth
Conclusion
6. The Asian Financial Crisis
Tracing the Crisis
Explaining the Crisis
Speculative Capital
Unsustainable Economic Policies
Crony Capitalism
Managing the Crisis
The Consequences of the Crisis
The Political Economy of the Crisis
Conclusion
Part III: Issues of East Asian Political Economy
7. The Political Economy of East Asian Production
The "Factory" of the World
East Asian Industrialization
Foreign Direct Investment in East Asia
The Investors of the World
Regionalization of Production
The East Asian State and Production
Picking the Winners
Foreign Direct Investment Policies
Inward investments
Outward investments
East Asian Companies
Domestic Political Economy of Production
Conclusion
8. The Political Economy of East Asian Trade
Trade Patterns in East Asia
Rapid Expansion in Trade
Structural Change in Trade
Surplus with the World
Greater Regional Trade Interdependence
East Asian Trade Strategies
Import Substitution
Export Promotion
Trade Liberalization
Facing the World
Managing Trade Disputes
Global Rules, Asian Plays
East Asian Trade Regionalism
Domestic Political Economy of Trade
Conclusion
9. The Political Economy of East Asian Finance
East Asian Finance
East Asian Capital Accumulation
East Asian Banking
Shallow Financial Markets
East Asian equity markets
East Asian bond markets
East Asian Financial Policies
Mobilizing Domestic Capital
Financial Liberalization
East Asia in Global Finance
Cross-Border Capital Flows
Global Saving Glut
East Asian Financial Regionalism
East Asian Political Economy of Finance
Conclusion
10. The Political Economy of East Asian Monetary Relations
East Asian Exchange Rate Policy
Exchange Rate Policies
East Asian Exchange Rate Policies Through the Early 1970s
From the Early 1970s to the 1997 Financial Crisis
Postcrisis East Asian Exchange Rate Regimes
East Asia in the Global Monetary System
International Monetary Regime
East Asia and the Bretton Woods System
The Dollar Standard
East Asian Regional Monetary System
Monetary Union
A Yen Bloc
The Yuan's Arrival
East Asian Political Economy of Money
Conclusion
11. The Political Economy of East Asian Regionalism
Defining Regionalization and Regionalism
East Asian Regionalization
East Asian Regionalism
Open Regionalism
The New East Asian Regionalism
"East Asia Plus" Versus "East Asia Minus" Regionalism
Theories of Regionalism
Economic Theories of Regionalism
Political Economy Theories of Regionalism
Functional/institutionalist explanations
Realist explanations
Constructivist explanations
Strategic explanations
Political Economy of Regionalism
Conclusion